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It is a place where flyers of all experience levels can meet to discuss and exchange up-to-date undistorted...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

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Got your PPL recently? Congratulations, we'd like to help you celebrate by sending you THREE free issues of Flyer* All you need to do is to send us a copy of your licence (photocopy, fax, scan etc.) and we'll do...

Every day is a school day - some more so than others - but we never stop learning.

We would all like to know about and join in celebrating noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial. This...

For the benefit of those considering a PPL(A) and wanting to know time and cost, I’m sharing my experience based upon detailed records I kept. This is just my way through it, yours may differ, but I hope it gives you some insight and food for...

I know i've read it here somewhere....but naturally now I can't find it.

After airlaw, what do people recommend as the next exam? I've heard both operational procedures or human factors.......but would be grateful for advice.

For a while I've been meaning to put together a little compilation of "stuff that helped" while I was learning to fly. I got around to it in the end (almost a year after getting the PPL...) and the result is now here(PDF) .

It's less a...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

So I'm in my 30s, never really considered learning to fly until a few months ago, never been near a light aircraft, but somehow I have become keen on the idea over the last few months.

I'm in the West of Scotland, where the weather is frequently...

Hi all,

Just wanted to confirm if this would be correct for an overhead join, I see many examples of overhead joins inbound from the live side but none from the dead side. This is what I would normally do.

Blue indicates where I would overfly the...

Hi there, recently passed my skills test and I am planning a trip. Your help would be appreciated with this as I have never dealt with something like this.

My flight plan requires me to enter multiple control areas and the control zone, how would I...

My first proper lesson . ...

Woke up to fog, rang aerodrome, they reported decent cloud base and some blue sky.

As I drove down the weather improved and we ended up with scattered above 3,000', blue skies, wind light, almost straight down the...

Hi All,

I'm guessing like many, I have reached that point in life (kids left home, mortgage paid, done motorbikes) that I am seriously considering turning a lifelong dream into reality.

I have been in love with aviation from childhood but the...

Hi all,

I am taking my first steps in learning to fly I think I have selected a suitable flight school however as part of the training they state that 12 hours must be spent in their ground school as a CAA requirement.

Is this correct?

I cannot...

I’m taking my Air Law exam on Saturday.

Anyone taken it recently ? I’m using Easy PPL ground school via my flying school , but am depressed at the depth of knowledge seemingly required via their progress tests.

Just wondered how others have got on...

I am considering moving to another flying school. I have not done any exams yet but I am registered with the e-exam portal.

For various reasons IF I do swap it won't be for a couple of months. I am minded to sit 2 or 3 exams in the meantime (Air...

Only now getting around to write this, but since a month ago or so I've finally taken the plunge on the way to a PPL. :-D

It's been about 15 years since the idea of learning to fly came into my head, for some reason always seemed out of my reach....

Hello!

I've always wanted to learn to fly and fortunately I am in a position now to make a start and plough through it at a decent rate.

Unfortunately, now that I'm set on and able to learn to fly, seems everything is against me!

I had a trial...

Got this on Friday. Noticed while revising with APM Q & A book & EasyPPL there seem to be a lot of questions which involve remembering the various take off & landing factors.
Seems a bit pointless as this is something you'd look up....

Anyone looked at this recently?

I ‘recorded’ my lesson last week and was fascinating to review my various circuits. You can easily see where the plane was getting ahead of me, where I turned too early, and where my glide slope was all over the...

I am only starting on my journey as a pilot having passed my PPL last July and am now embarking on my IR(R), but was saddened to find out that I have to get out the old slide rule to pass the ground school exam.
Surely it’s time that old...

Thought I'd start a new thread now that I've graduated from 'New' to 'Novice' :)

Lesson #2 today, and it was absolutely brilliant. Lots and lots of learning. Brace for a bit of a long blether:

The weather was officially CAVOK but the haze was...

Hi All,

I'm a 17 year old who is enthusiastic about aeronautical engineering and has had much to do around the subject, from using CFD to improve car aerodynamics, to implementing liquid cooling systems in computer's on a budget, I have naturally...

Hi All,

New member here and also a new PPL starter. Ive had two lessons so far and absolutely love every minute of it. Its been something i have wanted to do from even before i could drive, but money was the limiting factor. Hitting the big 40...

Hi! I've had 3 1/2 Hours of flying lessons now (Love it!!!!) but I'm getting stuck into the theory, I've got stuck AGAIN, I'm going in for my LAPL due to my age & will never use it for a career & come across a section in my book explaining...

You guys n gals have been super helpful and supportive on my journey this far and I’m super pleased to share I did my skills test today and got a pass.

Literally the worse two and a half hours flight of my life but that was mostly due to the...

Hello all, after reading many many posts here I decided to register and join in the discussions.

After 'playing' simulators for over 20 years and getting a real trial flight last month, I am starting my training for the LAPL this weekend.

I...

Hi! Can anyone tell me if there are any GA Pilots in the Manchester area to learn to fly with? I`m learning at Barton but because of the pandemic, all slots are being taken very quickly and the next slot that is available to me is 1st August. All I...

I took up gliding a long long time ago and then packed it in some months after starting. It’s come back to me now as I came across my old log book when I was clearing out some old papers.

The reason for starting gliding was a trial flight and I...

Hi,

I flew weekly some 5 years ago while working towards my PPL before moving away at which point I discontinued by training. I started flying with another school nearby a year ago but decided to stop as I did not like the PA-28 compared to the...

Being a avid IOS and with plans to buy skyDemon once I finally pass my PPL, are there any apps which pilots found useful when taking their PPLs.

Ignoring planning tools I was wondering about tools that allow you to review a lesson. I guess simply...

Where is the best place to find the latest up to date laws for flying? I`ve got the 2019 Skywise book which is obviously out of date, I've also got an app on my phone which has informed me that the under 140kts, up to 3000ft, 1000ft vertical cloud...

Hi all,

I'm new here, and started my PPL last year, but unfortunately Covid put a hold on the training for six months, but I am now back in the air!

At school it was always my dream to fly commercially, and I still remember my first commercial...

Hi,

I'm looking to train for a NPPL (because I can't quite reach a Class 2 medical standard)

On the NPPL website, it approves the use of FAA registered aeroplanes on an NPPL. Does that mean I can learn to fly on an FAA aircraft or would this only...

Hello all! Fair warning, long post! :D

New member here but have been lurking for a short while now. I'm considering taking up flying for real and maybe even a career later on, but due to the high costs, I'd rather not look at the end goal right...

Hi there people, this is my first post but I've been skulking in the background for a while now.
I'm working my way through the PPL text books by Pooley's (Air Pilot's Manual) and have arrived at the Navigation book.
Firstly I will admit I'm no...

Hi guys,

So I had my first flying lesson this week. The usual story: lifetime ambition, finally in a position to afford it etc. Thing is, I've been left a little bit underwhelmed by the experience.

I wouldn't say I didn't enjoy it, but I found it...

I went solo Today

It didn't start well with loosing my wallet the night before, road closures on the way the the aerodrome, and then no breakfast, but I arrived. The plan was a few flights with the CFI, then possibly solo... The CFI flights were...

Morning all

Most Saturday mornings during term time one of my little darlings does one of their many billions of activities just around the corner from Elstree aerodrome - takes only only the merest hint of decent weather before I magically seem to...

Morning All

Faced with the briefest of congratulations from my teenage son, a grudging and much delayed compliment from my missus, and outright disinterest from my pre-teen daughter ("I don't care daddy"), I thought I'd come here for a...

Hey

Just curious if anyone has any advice, done all my training in the Cherokee 140, doing a checkout/difference training on a Warrior II next week which is new to the school.

It’s much younger so has toe brakes and trim is between seats rather...

Hi Everyone,

I had a 30 min trial flight a week ago, and absolutely loved it. I have always been into Avaition, and the closest i have got before actual flying was Microsoft Flight Sim. So over the past week i have been trying to find as much...

I'm looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and energetic FI in the Bournemouth area to take me though my PPL. Ideally someone with good availability who can fly with me on relatively short notice on weekdays or weekends to take advantage of good...

Hi! Sorry that I`ve not been on here for a while it's just that flying planes is soooooooo adictive, anyway, I've decided to start to knuckle down on the exams and again, I'm stumped. I've got an exam question the I can't get my head around. You are...

Hi all,

I have been reading this forum for quite some time and finally the time has come for me to introduce myself to you wonderful bunch.
Based in south east London, I am about to reach 40 and thinking that I have good 20 years left to enjoy...

Hi all,

I'm going to apologise in advance because this is going to be a wall of text! I have a ton of questions and I'm struggling to find the best place to ask them so I thought I'd try here. Please don't feel like you need to reply to everything,...

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say hello as a new student beginning (hopefully!) my PPL journey.
I've been lurking for a year reading all the fantastic conversations and experiences of everyone.
I've been a flight simmer on and off for about 20...

Hi,
Just introducing myself on here as I’m hoping to start some training in Guernsey in the spring.
I’m 42, I live on the island and always been really keen on aviation. I’m at the stage where I’m thinking it’s now or never, so last summer I booked...

Ok one of those stupid questions that you shouldn't really ask the internet.

But a straw poll....how many takes offs and landing did it take for it all to 'click' during your training? I seem to have everything apart from gauging the right about...

Hello everyone, I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Matt, I live in North Norfolk and I am interested in learning to fly.
I did a reasonable amount of flying when I was in the ATC, mainly in Chipmunks, Bulldogs and a variety of...

No real reason to post this, other than my own excitement I guess. Long story short, I got my PPL at the tail end of 2017, but had to suspend my medical at the start of 2019 due to migraines.

I did get an OSL (safety pilot) medical last year, and...

Yet to start learning to fly but in the late stages of deciding a school.

I have a few questions I have around the new format for PPL exams which I'm hoping you could help me on:

Are the online exams managed through the CAA Portal?
Do I need...

I think today was about my sixth or seventh slot booked for the cross country but the weather gods was looking down on me today with some pretty clear skies and limited winds.

Got a little treat in the form of a chinook fueling whilst at...